Mindfulness is experiencing a renaissance as a conscious and considered approach to life, beckons us to do more than just survive the stresses of daily life. It calls us to thrive and live happily.
This pensive and peaceful book encourages children to slow down and become deliberate with their day-to-day actions and thoughts. With gentle rhythms and soothing imagery, kids may be guided toward a quiet self-awareness and mindfulness. And when a day feels stressful or topsy-turvy, kids can use such self-awareness to calm down and feel better. Kids can then enjoy the beauty of the world all around them and fully savour life.
This book gives school professionals practical, solution-focused strategies for solving problems with students and parents, rapidly and effectively. Solution Focused Strategies for Principals, Teachers and Counsellors Unlike traditional problem-solving models, which focus on deficits and the history of the problem, the solution-focused model emphasizes times when the problem does not occur. These exceptions to the problem offer clues to solutions. Learn how to use exception-finding questions to begin the solution-building process. You will also learn how to use powerful future-oriented questions to help students and parents to work towards achievable goals.... More info
The book looks at secondary suicide prevention (treatment for those thinking about suicide or who are actively suicidal) and is very practically focused. The first chapter reviews the prevention literature and discusses the healthier nation targets. The second chapter outlines solution focused brief therapy and presents the evidence base for this approach. Chapters 3 and 4 focus on risk assessment, management and medication. Chapter 5 presents an in-depth case study and the final chapter presents five shorter case studies. The appendices contain examples of exercises that can be given to... More info
Well known author and practitioner in Solution Focused Approaches, Bill O'Hanlon, offers a new and hopeful way to think about and intervene with those who have tough psychiatric problems or long histories of treatment. His approach to therapy emphasizes health, competence, and possibilities, instead of the traditional emphasis on pathology, deficits and limitations. More info
